BRISBANE, Australia — Lindsay Carter had his first fierce seizure at 14. He toppled confront first onto a tiled floor before his dad.

At 19, Mr. Carter can at present have seizures a few times each month that can shake his body and undermine his life. In any case, more frequently, the current secondary school graduate encounters “central seizures,” which briefly capture his capacity to talk or appreciate.

When he gets what he depicts as “mists in my mind,” he swings to a legitimate however hard to get the cure — restorative pot.

The young person has progressed toward becoming lately a hesitant publication kid for the medication’s restorative use in Australia. Showing up in news reports and radio projects communicate the nation over, he recounts a story that epitomizes for some the preposterousness of the country’s weed controls.

Mr. Carter said he realizes that conversing with the news media is important to expose the issue, however, he included that all the consideration had influenced him to feel he needed to seem “culminate.”

Australia legitimized therapeutic marijuana in 2016, and the nation’s wellbeing clergyman said this January that he needed the country to end up noticeably the world’s driving provider of the medication.

Be that as it may, in a savage Catch 22, individuals like Mr. Carter — who has been told he has a cerebrum tumor and epilepsy — think that its difficult to get the medication in their nation. Administration and direction, clueless specialists, constrained supply and high costs make what at times could be a lifesaving drug about difficult to acquire.

Dr. Bastian Seidel, the leader of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, called the nation’s dispersion framework “divided” and “not straightforward.”

“We don’t have a predictable, administrative structure that is either productive or auspicious,” he stated, “and this is the thing that makes it so baffling for medicinal professionals and for patients who are unmistakably needing therapeutic treatment.”

The medication, which Mr. Carter takes orally as an oil and breathes in through a vaporizer, is the main prescription he has found to date that subdues the recurrence and power of his seizures.

In fourteen days, his diminishing legitimate cannabis supply will run out, and it could take up to seven months to get more. His lone alternative will at that point be to leave the nation with his mom to get cannabis, his fifth such outing in four years.

Mr. Carter inhabits home with his folks. His mom, Lanai Carter, keeps an infant screen in his room, tuning in for hints of a seizure. Be that as it may, as of late, while routinely utilizing cannabis, Mr. Carter has gotten his first taste of free adulthood: going to a hip-jump show, taking street trips with companions and dating.

His high school years were spent on long, costly abroad excursions for treatment and endeavoring to explore Australia’s unpredictable therapeutic pot organization. In 2014, when Parliament was all the while talking about how to direct therapeutic cannabis, Mr. Carter and his mom opened up to the world about their story.

“Nothing appeared to move,” Ms. Carter said from the family’s home in Loganholme, a town 18 miles from Brisbane, of those prior years sanctioning. While going for her child’s cannabis treatment, Ms. Carter started campaigning. That implied pushing her child more into the spotlight.

Mr. Carter has shown up twice on the Australian variant of “an hour,” and be included in reports by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Buzzfeed and the radio station Triple J.

It is “disappointing” that Mr. Carter “is outstanding, however regardless it hasn’t got him anyplace,” said Lucy Haslam, a restorative weed lobbyist. Ms. Haslam’s child, Dan, was a focal figure of the legitimization development until he kicked the bucket from a disease in 2015, at 25.

Numerous Australians looking for a pot for therapeutic reasons get it illicitly, inclining toward the danger of guiltiness to the battle with the organization. Just around 350 Australian patients have been affirmed to utilize cannabis legitimately. The procedure, activists say, is unnecessarily moderate, costly and confounded. Patients looking for remedies must acquire the endorsement of both government and state wellbeing authorities.

To get Mr. Carter a solution, his mom and specialist rounded out various applications, included 196 pages of supporting proof, and got the composed underwriting of six specialists and pros. The procedure took 19 months.

Indeed, even once affirmed, patients may need to sit tight for little measures of imported weed — another extensive procedure frequently filled with delays.

Quite a bit of Mr. Carter’s supply is given, yet in the event that the family was to pay out of pocket, it would cost 16,000 Australian dollars, or $12,500, a month to get as near his required measurements as could be allowed. (The correct quality isn’t yet accessible in Australia.)

Australia’s cannabis lack implies the Carters are intending to again go abroad to acquire the medication, their first excursion since 2014.

After a few hostile to seizure drugs neglected to assuage his manifestations or brought about incapacitating symptoms, Mr. Carter and his mom flew out in 2013 to North America to meet with pros. They returned three more circumstances throughout the following year, venturing out to California, Texas, Washington and British Columbia.

It was in Seattle that a specialist recommended cannabis to treat his cerebral pains, queasiness and poor craving. The medication was administered that day it was recommended.

“I got more vitality,” Mr. Carter said of his treatment in the United States. Through the span of that year, he had fewer seizures and his cerebrum tumor shrank seven millimeters in seven weeks.

Whenever Mr. Carter came back to Australia and quit utilizing marijuana, his tumor started developing once more.

His mom initially connected for his medicinal marijuana in 2015, yet it would take over a year to get it. Presently, the family should hold up once more, as the supply of dried buds and oils Mr. Carter depends on is quickly lessening.

“What patient ought to need to experience that?” Ms. Carter said. “The pressure that this framework makes for families and for wiped outpatients is really obtuse.”

On a drizzly late evening, Mr. Carter was viewing a motion picture at home with his better half, resting in the wake of having a seizure prior to the day. A couple of steps away, Ms. Carter was remaining in her jumbled home office, crying. Therapeutic reports, remedies, and solicitations were strewn all over the place.

“I need to place it in a file organizer and put it away,” she said as she filtered through papers. “It’s a bad dream. I can totally comprehend why individuals surrender. Or on the other hand, don’t begin.”